Randi’s Steps by Frances Judge is a coming of age story for young teenagers and children set in the early '80s. Randi's Steps follows the lives and friendship of two school girls named Randi and Francie. Randi is a popular, kind-hearted girl and Francie, although...

The basic elements are life are really quite simple. Or at least they should be. Perhaps this is the beauty of Haiku poetry - the ability of a creative thought transpiring through marginality of vocabulary. Yet, it's not really marginal. Each word, each syllable, has...

Adventures in Travel Photography: Exploring Approaches to People of India and Tibet by April Fonti is a beautiful collection of travel photographs which are the result of the author's chance encounters and living with different people. The pictures speak a story of their own and...

The Butterfly That Returned by Serene Martin is a collection of uplifting messages that will make readers look into themselves, their perspectives on life and living. 'Call it faith. Call it the law of attraction. Call it the placebo effect. Call it God. Call it...

At the Corner of Magnetic and Main is a paranormal fantasy written by Meg Welch Dendler. Jake Thatcher was relishing the forbidden pleasures of a day off from work spent riding his motorcycle on the hills and curves of Highway 62. It was spring, and...

Caerwin and the Roman Dog by Lizzie Ashworth is the story of Caerwin, a young Cornovii woman, who is taken as a slave when the Romans won the battle for her home. Marcellus is Caerwin's new master. She fights against everything that Marcellus stands for,...

I just finished reading Crik by author Karl Beer, and all I can say is "Wow!" How's that for a review? I must admit, I read a lot, and a lot of what I read is in the genre of fantasy. I can honestly stay...

The Return of Tachlanad by Kathy Fischer-Brown is the first book in a series called Sword of Names. This is a story of a well thought out world of magic and treachery. Lysienthe is the queen of Lothria and she is Gifted. Chief among her...

IA: B.O.S.S. is a riveting science fiction novel by author John Darryl Winston, and continues the story of Naz where IA: Initiate left off. Our hero is a fostered orphan whose number one priority is Meri, his beloved little sister, but during the events of...

No Rest For the Wicked by M.L. Sparrow is a romantic fantasy about a young woman named Elira who had spent most of her life in an orphanage. She was often chastised for being pretty and having a well developed figure. The story begins with...

Scatterlings by Zeena Nackerdien starts off strong with A Robin, a poem about a bird nearly dying and being saved by an old man, and the man feels good about it at the end. This brought me into the work and showed me that it...

Emma Tate is a good girl, but the same can’t be said about her eating habits. Like her friends, she loves to eat fish fingers, chips, sweets and crisps rather than the mashed potatoes, vegetables and meat that her mum prepares for dinner. She often...

The Dancing Barber by AC Michael is a novel with powerful historical hints about a Ukrainian who was able to survive and even escape the worst of the cruelties of the Soviet communist dictatorship. This story is set against the backdrop of the Soviet Union...

Gloria and Mrs Tinkelbaum by Jocelyne Turbett revolves around nine-year-old Gloria who is unhappy with her family's move to Vermont. The girls there find her too boyish and the boys make fun of her. She finds it difficult to adjust to the new surroundings and...

Momster is a humorous children's book written by Laura Jensen-Kimball and illustrated by Peter Mahr. Mothers are not all they may seem, as the narrator of this disarming and clever story asserts. There's a monster lurking deep within, just waiting for a reason to manifest...

The world is crazy about super heroes these days, thanks to the movies. When I was a kid, you hid your comic books and science fiction novels in order to escape ridicule. The genre and the world have come a long way since then. It...

Earthstains: Based on True Events by Greg Shepard revolves around the true story of two handsome young men in their twenties, George and Matt Kimes, who became famous for their sensational bank robberies. Their explosive careers grabbed the headlines and became news for the next...

Difficult Lies by Christopher T. Werkman drops readers into the life of Allan Vickery, although when we first meet him he is not overly sure if he is alive or dead. Vic took a hard hit to the head with a golf ball; he slipped...

Friendships can occur in many forms; just ask Tyler and Marty in Tyler the Fish and Marty the Sturgeon by Meaghan Fisher. Tyler was swimming with his friend, Jimmy, in the beautiful waters of Lake Erie when they encountered Marty. Initially both Tyler and Jimmy...

Legends and myths contain nuggets of truth, oft buried beneath the detritus of time, layer upon layer added until sometimes what is has become a distorted reflection of what was. With Minotaur, Phillip W. Simpson has given us just such a story of what might...